Sylvia Milne at work sewing masks to raise food bank funds PHOTO: Doug Milne By Sue Stefko(Appeared in the Glebe Report, August 2020) Sylvia Milne has […]
Grocery Store – Inbound!
View of Arnon’s development proposal for 450 Rochester Street, from the southwest corner at Preston and Beech – Photo: Arnon Development Corporation & GBA Group By […]
Abbas Grocery Store: The Heart of the Glebe Annex
Radi (left) and Mike in front of their corner store. By Sue Stefko(Appeared in the Glebe Report, January 2020) It may be no coincidence that the […]
Meet the Mayor of Plymouth St.
Mr. Lalonde outside his home on Plymouth St., where he has lived for the last 67 years. By Sue Stefko(Appeared in the Glebe Report, December 2019) […]
The original annexation of the Glebe Annex
By Sue Stefko(Appeared in the Glebe Report, October 2018) What Ottawa looked like in 1889, in the aftermath of the annexation and introduction of the newly […]
The History of Ottawa’s streetcars in the Glebe Annex Neighbourhood
By Sue Stefko (Appeared in the Glebe Report, June 2018) Ottawa’s first electric streetcars were launched in 1891 and were soon to replace the system of horse […]
Ottawa’s Great Fire of 1900 – Another Close Call for what is now the Glebe Annex
By Sue Stefko (Appeared in the Glebe Report, May 2018) An earlier article explained how what is now the Glebe Annex area was spared the great […]
The Ottawa Valley’s Great Fire of 1870 –or– How Dow’s Lake saved Ottawa
By Sue Stefko (Appeared in the Glebe Report, April 2018) When the people of Ottawa reflect upon the great fire, the vast majority think of the […]
History of Dalhousie South Park
By Sue Stefko (Printed in the Glebe Report January 15, 2016) It started as many projects do – with the effort and enthusiasm of a small […]